Comedian Marc Maron got to speak with President Barack Obama this week for his WTF podcast. Maron didn’t have to go to the White House though, as they just recorded it in his garage during Obama’s visit to Los Angeles.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Maron said that the interview all came together very quickly. It was only last month that they got a call from the President’s people about scheduling an interview while he was in LA. He said that Secret Service agents were everywhere and they even had bomb-sniffing dogs in his house.
When asked what the most revealing thing he learned about the president, Maron said, “Just how he approaches his job and his life psychologically, given the obstacles and amount of slander and shame and demonization that he’s had to put up with – just like I think any president puts up with from one side or the other – and having a Congress that was proud to not work with him at all on anything. In the face of all these obstacles, he doesn’t seem to possess the capacity to be consumed by disappointment.”
Based on the short preview EW posted, it does sound like the two briefly discussed the Charleston church shooting. The full episode, titled “WTF Summit,” will be posted on WTFpod.com, iTunes and his WTF app Monday.